Original French Model 1866 Chassepot Needle Fire Rifle Dated 1867 - Matching Serial No 8092 Browning LMG in September 1818

in September 1818

The Hotchkiss machine gun barrel features five large annular rings which materially assisted natural cooling and retarded overheating

Pomerania (now the town of Czarne

about the size of a U

and acceptance markings and dated 00 for 1900

Original French Model 1866 Chassepot Needle Fire Rifle Dated 1867 - Matching Serial No 8092 Browning LMG in September 1818Original Item: Only One Available. Despite the fact that the French needle fire Chassepot rifle was far superior to the needle fire Prussian Dreyse rifle, the French took a swift and decisive beating in the war of 1870 71. In fairness to the French, the defeat was due to Napoleon III's foolhardiness in allowing himself to get captured at the Battle of Sedan and the show was then over. The Chassepot rifle of 1866 was a single shot bolt action rifle and